Chicken and Vegetable soup

Ingredients:

Boneless chicken – ½ inch pieces each

1 Potato – grated

1 tomato – chopped into tiny pieces

1 carrot – grated

Spring onion greens – chopped

½ cup finely chopped cabbage

Vinegar – 1 tbsp

Dry Coconut powder – 1 tsp

Water

Pepper powder/chili powder, Salt to taste and a pinch of sugar

Corn flour / corn starch – 1 tbsp mixed with little of cold water and form lumpless paste

Instructions:

• o   Take 1 litre of water and let it boil in a saucepan
• o   In the meantime chop, grate and keep all ingredients ready
• o   When it boils add all chopped ingredients except spring onion greens
• o   Add vinegar, salt, sugar, dry coconut powder – let it boil well for 15 to 25 mins
• o   Later add the corn flour paste to it mix well and also add pepper powder, adjust salt and let it boil for another few mins
• o   Add chopped spring onion greens and turn off the burner after 2 mins
• o   Serve hot on a chilly night
• o   Optional – can add pasta along with chopped ingredients (or) beaten egg into the soup while stirring it vigourosly. Serve hot with butter fried bread crumbs or fried noodles